“I get to do stand-up every single day. I love that live energy exchange between the audience and myself, and to get to say the things I want to say and comment on.” WantEnergyAudienceComment Author:Ellen DeGeneres
“Unfortunately, because the theater is always a poor relation when it comes to making the nut, it's not easy to get the audience in to see a play, unless you have a name that is recognizable, that the audience wants to see and is prepared to pay the $125 to see.” WantPlayNamesEasyPoorPayAudienceRelationTheaterPreparedNutsEasy To Get Author:Angela Lansbury
“There is a business here first of all, as a company and secondly, the ability to make films that audiences want to see and wouldn't get the opportunity to see. It's exciting. That's where our whole thought process originated from.” WantFirstsWholeFilmOpportunityProcessAbilityCompanyAudienceExcitingThought Process Author:Courtney Solomon
“Clearly, audiences are very accepting of A-list talent both giving them what they want - Tom Hanks is the most classic example - and then going on, from time to time, to do things that are unexpected. That's part of what makes people want to go to the movies and not just sit home.” PeopleWantGivingHomeAcceptingAudienceTalentExampleListsClassicUnexpectedToms Author:Mark Canton
“I want to try to apply my abilities sometimes to make families happy, so I have to make movies at a venue that are not gratuitously violent, that are not using bullets and bloodshed, but are using things like magic and fantasy and enchantment and the imagination. To me that's just all positive stuff. But I am eclectic and I still like to make movies for the midnight audience as well.” WantTryingWellsStillsSometimesStuffImaginationAbilityFantasyAudienceMagicViolentBulletsMidnightEnchantmentVenuesBloodshedEclectic Author:Nicolas Cage
“Hardly any filmmakers can just make anything they want. Obviously, there are some exceptions, like Steven Spielberg, but he has that mainstream mentality and the kinds of films he loves to make are the kind that appeal to this big, mass audience.” WantKindBigsFilmAudienceMassAppealsFilmmakerExceptionMentalityMainstream Author:Catherine Hardwicke
“When you start to see things that are well-executed you'll watch a lot of stuff in 3D and see the same scene again in 2D and realize, "Oh, my god, it's like you turned the color off or the sound off." Once you get used to it, I think audiences and the public will want more of it.” ThinkingWantWellsUsedStuffSoundRealizingWatchesAudienceColorLike YouScene Author:Andrew Wight
“Before writing a single note of music, and even before the spotting session, I find it best to sit down with the director and just listen to him or her talk about the film - what they're trying to say, what they want the audience to understand or believe, and a thousand other similar questions. The director has most likely been living with the film for years before a composer is attached, and so the director's inclinations, desires, and understanding of the film are paramount.” WantWritingTryingYearsBelieveFilmDesireUnderstandingAudienceThousandDirectorsNotesComposerInclinationSessionJust ListenParamount Author:John Keltonic
“For me, it [moviemaking] is about social relevance. I want to make a movie that has some type of relevance where as the audience can't help but relate it in some way, and to continue that conversation outside the theater. I want people saying "this happened to my father" or "this happened to me." That's what I want.” PeopleWayWantHelpingFatherSocialAudienceHappenedTypeConversationTheaterRelateRelevance Author:Ric Roman Waugh
“When critics or people judge, I think it's harder to make a commercial, pop movie than it is to make a pretentious art film. It's harder to reach millions of people and satisfy them and make them happy. These films kind of get ghettoized, this genre because there are so many big, big movies that are such big hits, but aren't any good. The audiences, they're not judging the style of the director, or the execution of the film. They're just looking to be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that's why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities.” PeopleThinkingWantKindArtBigsRealityFilmMillionsAudienceStyleJudgingDirectorsHarderCriticsPopsGenreExecutionPretentiousBig MovieArt FilmsNot Judging Author:Brett Ratner
“Whoever writes a bad review, I put their name on a list, and they're going to get taken care of one day down the road. Otherwise, I don't let it bother me. The truth is, these are review-proof movies. The audiences are going to see it. My audience, our audience, isn't reading Esquire magazine to see if my movie is good or not. They just want to laugh, to be entertained, and lose themselves.” IfsWantWritingCareReadingNamesLosesAudienceLaughingTakenTruth IsOne DayProofListsMagazinesBotherReviewsDown The RoadBad Reviews Author:Brett Ratner
“The first film that really knocked me out was Alien by Ridley Scott. This is a great movie because no matter how many times I watch it, I still find myself fully invested in the characters despite the fact I know what is coming. I think it was this type of mastery of storytelling and the ability of bringing the audience so completely into another world that made me want to become a director.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWantFirstsMadeStillsMatterCharacterFactsFilmAbilityWatchesAudienceTypeDirectorsStorytellingDespiteAliensMasteryAnother World Author:Nicholas Ozeki
“I think the power of the short film is incredibly underrated. It is way easier to get someone to watch a 15-minute film then a full-length feature. In those 15 minutes you have the opportunity to express your voice as an artist and hopefully connect with your audience. If you are trying to be a first time feature director then a short film that demonstrates you have a grasp on the themes and concepts of the movie you want to direct is a no-brainer. Whether they are collaborators or potential investors, filmmaking is a visual art form so you obviously need visuals to show them!” IfsThinkingWayWantNeedsTryingFirstsArtShowsFilmFormArtistOpportunityVoiceWatchesAudienceMinutesEasierDirectorsConceptsFirst TimeDirectHopefullyFeaturesThemeVisualsLengthInvestorsFilmmakingVisual ArtCollaboratorsUnderratedShort FilmsNo Brainer Author:Nicholas Ozeki
“Any good director creates a playground. That's what they do. They hire the right actor, open the door and let them play because stuff will happen, right then and there. The audience wants to believe that what's going on is happening for the first time, ever. That's what acting is. That's what good scene writing is.” WantWritingFirstsBelievePlayHappensActorsStuffActingAudienceDoorsSceneDirectorsHappeningsFirst TimePlaygroundsGood Directors Author:Martin Landau
“I just want to write books or give talks which, if I were in the audience or I were the reader, I would appreciate.” IfsWantGivingWritingBookAudienceReaderAppreciate Author:Marianne Williamson
“I want to grow up, live my life, experience things, make movies about those experiences and by the time the audience catches up, hopefully they'll have a movie there that helps them get through that next phase when they discover life isn't always like High School Musical.” WantHelpingSchoolNextGrowsAudienceGrowing UpHigh SchoolMusicalHopefullyLife ExperiencePhasesLiving My LifeHigh School Musical Author:Zac Efron
“I genuinely have never been in an audience where most people want that person to fail. I've never been in an audience like that, and I've never seen it as a performer. Only in my dreams, in which case they are always throwing tomatoes and going, "This is the most boring thing I've ever seen."” PeopleWantPersonsDreamCasesAudienceFailingBoringPerformersThrowingTomatoesBoring Things Author:Laurie Anderson
“With a feature film you're dealing with so much more money and you've got to be very aware of the fact that you're really working with an audience. You've got to have a relationship with the audience. Play with them and show them things you want them to see.” WantPlayFactsShowsFilmAudienceFeaturesMore Money Author:Taika Waititi
“I love it all. I don't want to go through my career with one hand tied behind my back. I love making kids happy. I love the midnight audience. I like intense dramas. And I like high-adrenaline action films.” WantHandsKidsActionFilmBehindsCareersAudienceDramaIntenseTiedMidnightAdrenalineLove MakingAction FilmsBehind My BackHands Tied Author:Nicolas Cage
“As long as you keep the audience on the edge of their seats, either scare them or keep them guessing, you can put anything in there that you want.” WantLongAudienceEdgesSeatsScareGuessing Author:Wes Craven
“You can look at what's happened to America in the last years and say a lot of people were asleep. A lot of people were not staying awake and watching what was going on and facing the pain of that and dealing with it.I don't care if the rest of the audience doesn't think along those lines at all, because the audience is a huge spectrum of people, from people who are introspective to people who just want to be scared and have fun, and all the points in between.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantYearsLooksCarePainLastsAmericaFunLinesAudienceHappenedHugeScaredDon't CareI Don't CareHaving FunAwakeStayingLast YearSpectrumIntrospectiveDealing With It Author:Wes Craven
“It's very hard to impose your beliefs or a specific message about any given movie. I think that audiences always extract what they want from a film even if something isn't overtly political. They may or may not get it, and it's hard to control that.” IfsThinkingWantMayHardFilmPoliticalBeliefGivenAudienceMessages Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“When I sing, I believe. I'm honest. If you want to get an audience with you, there's only one way. You have to reach out to them with total honesty and humility.” IfsWayWantBelieveI BelieveAudienceHonestHonestyHumilityOne WayReach Out Author:Frank Sinatra
“I prefer older people to college kids [as audience] for the most part. I want people with life experience, people that understand where I'm coming from.” PeopleWantKidsAudienceCollegeLife ExperienceOlder People Author:Joe Rogan
“There are jokes I know I want to tell, and there's sort of a rough order, but usually I try to change it up every show, to improvise and talk with the audience. I think when you tell jokes, if you're not careful, you can end up telling the whole list of jokes and then that's it. And that can get a little boring.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantTryingLittlesEndsWholeShowsOrderAudienceJokesCarefulBoringListsRough Author:Demetri Martin
“Audiences have proved time and again that they don't want a steady diet of any entertainer airing his social views - especially if he's a comedian.” IfsWantSocialViewsAudienceComedianDietsSteadyEntertainers Author:Johnny Carson
“I know it's the comedian's instinct to say, "Do it, man, nothing's off-limits! It's cool, bro!" I don't know if that's the answer for me. "Do I really want to make a joke about a miscarriage when a woman in the audience might have had one?" I don't worship comedy; at the end of the day I don't fall to the altar of comedy unquestioningly.” IfsKnowsMenWantEndsMightFallAnswersAudienceComedyLimitsWorshipJokesInstinctComedianThe End Of The DayAltarsBrosMiscarriage Author:Bo Burnham
“You want people to think. You want people to be emotionally moved. And there's a theory behind that in terms of storytelling. It has been around for thousands of years. And that's where something like live theater or a live performance is something that is very valuable because you get instant feedback from your audience and you kind of know the things that work and the things that don't work.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantYearsKindHas BeensTermBehindsAudienceTheoryPerformancesTheaterMovedValuableStorytellingInstantFeedbackLive PerformanceLive Theater Author:George Lucas
“Kids, if anything, are harder to write for because they are a more discerning audience. They will not stay with you if you go off on a tangent or if you give them extraneous information that doesn't serve the story. You really have to tell a tight story. You have to give them humor and suspense and believable characters. All those things that adults want too, but you have to be really on your game when you're writing for kids.” IfsWantGivingWritingCharacterStoriesKidsGamesAudienceInformationAdultsHarderSuspenseBelievableDiscerning Author:Rick Riordan
“I've always said about 50% of what happens at a concert has to do with the audience. If you play for a dead audience you're gonna stink. If we play for a great crowd we're much better. You want 'em to make noise. It's kinda like sex, if they don't make noise, you ain't doin' it right.” IfsWantSaidPlayHappensSexAudienceCrowdsNoiseEmsConcertsStink Author:Billy Joel
“I've always been drawn to the best writing that I can find. I don't care if it's in movies or theater or whatever - if you want to be in front of an audience, you have to do writing you believe in.” IfsWantWritingBelieveI CanCareAudienceFrontsTheaterDon't CareI Don't Care Author:Ethan Hawke
“Work hard and find stories you want to tell from your heart. The great thing for women is that there are so many stories which haven't been told from our perspective and there is a huge audience just waiting to watch it.” WantHeartHardStoriesWaitingWatchesAudienceHavensHard WorkHugePerspectiveGreat Things Author:Sanna Lenken
“The audience makes the decision of what kind of actor they want to watch. I always have said in the last 20 years, the real boss is the audience.” WantKindSaidRealActorsDecisionWatchesAudienceBossReal Boss Author:Jet Li
“You can't help but feel the energy of the audience - and if you feel they hate you that feels weird and dirty. But I would never want to take it too seriously. It's understandable that you're not going to be everyone's cup of tea. I think that's helped me survive.” IfsThinkingWantFeelsHelpingHateEnergyAudienceCupsTeaDirtyHate YouCups Of Tea Author:Charlyne Yi
“Audiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody's encouraged to want less, you'll end up with less.” IfsWantGivingEndsAudienceTheaterCritics Author:Edward Albee
“I'm going to be cremated from the neck down. And at my funeral, when people are talking about me, they have to hold my head. And then at the end, they have to kick me into the audience and the audience has to keep me up for at least three hits or you have to start the whole service over. No cradling it - I want legit sets.” PeopleWantEndsWholeHumorFunnyThreeTalkingAudienceDown AndKicksNecksFuneralTalking About MeLegit Author:Daniel Tosh
“9/10 startups fail, which is a harsh reality in the world of entrepreneurship. However, I believe that such a high number of startups fail because they do not take the right steps necessary when building their business. The biggest challenge people have is building something that their target audience or niche really wants.” PeopleWorldWantBelieveRealityI BelieveChallengesNumbersStepsAudienceFailingBuildingEntrepreneurshipTargetHarshNicheTarget AudienceHarsh RealityBuilding Something Author:Jeet Banerjee
“I've had a lot of support from every corner of my life and my audience, to pretty much do close to what I want. I don't have unlimited time or money to execute my wildest dreams but I have enough get up and go to keep me going.” WantEnoughDreamSupportAudienceCornersGet UpUnlimitedWildest Dreams Author:Joel Plaskett
“Writers want recognition, audience, some corroboration that all those hours at the desk and in daydreams add up to something in the esteem of others.” WantHoursAudienceAddEsteemRecognitionDesksDaydreaming Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical theory or cultural studies. I don't want to give a poetry reading and have to provide the story behind the poem in order for it to make sense to an audience. I certainly don't want the poem to require a critical intermediary - a "spokescritic." I want my poems to be independently meaningful moments of power for a good reader. And that's the expectation I initially bring to other poets' writing.” WantNeedsGivingWritingMomentsStoriesOrderReadingBehindsAudienceStudyWrittenPoetTheoryReaderExpectationsCriticalMeaningfulMake SenseBiographiesPoetry ReadingCritical TheoryMeaningful Moments Author:Albert Goldbarth
“If art doesn't require an audience, can an intimate conversation be a work of art? Can a thought be a work of art? Maybe. I don't know. These questions are completely hypothetical for me, because I love interacting with audiences. I want my poems to be heard.” IfsKnowsWantArtAudienceHeardConversationIntimateWorks Of ArtInteractingHypotheticalIntimate Conversation Author:James Arthur
“I want to tell stories which require something of an audience, by way of thought, argument, emotion, because I'm more often in an audience than I am a maker of films, and that's the kind of movie I want to see.” WayWantKindStoriesFilmEmotionAudienceArgumentMakers Author:Anthony Minghella
“I only do numbers/acts that excite me, or I connect to personally. I never phone it in. It's about finding the balance between what my audience wants and what I want to give them. That sweet spot in the vendiagram.” WantGivingNumbersAudienceSweetBalanceFindingsPhonesSpots Author:Jinkx Monsoon
“My goal with everything that I do is to present things in a way that I would want to see if I was in the audience or buying the record.” IfsWayWantGoalAudienceRecordsBuying Author:Moby
“I take no notice of the trends. It has never concerned me at all. My job is to deal with what I want to deal with and reach an audience by doing so.” WantJobsDealsAudienceConcernedTrends Author:Mike Leigh
“I know, that trends and all of those things and formulae that calculate what audiences want to see and what audiences don't want to see and various other demographic demarcations are the eccentric and ludicrous prerogative of Hollywood studios. But out there in the real world - by which I mean the rest of the world where we make truthful organic films, independent films unimpeded by interference - it's not about all those sort of calculating what is commercial. It's about wanting to say things and saying them in a way that will get through to people.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayWantMeanRealFilmAudienceHollywoodIndependentVariousStudiosTrendsReal WorldTruthfulEccentricInterferenceDemographicsIndependent FilmCalculatingPrerogativeHollywood Studios Author:Mike Leigh
“I want to use film to tell stories that need to be told to spark discussions that will lead to change. I really want to see a change in the mindset of youth, how they see themselves and how they value life. Young audiences will be able to see themselves in this film and older audiences will gain an understanding of what their kids are dealing with on a daily basis. Kids discuss what they see on TV, social media, film so I want to create content that they will discuss and will change the way they think.” ThinkingWayWantNeedsStoriesUseKidsAbleFilmYoungValuesSocialUnderstandingAudienceMediaYouthTvsGainsBasesSocial MediaMindsetDiscussionSparks Author:Jamie Hector
“As a filmmaker you make your films with the audience you want to attract in mind.” WantMindFilmAudienceFilmmaker Author:Chika Anadu
“If I would want to have a huge audience, I would make American movies, not French movies, because there is a limit of course with French language. If I prefer to shoot in my own language, it is to play with my language, to play in my Paris, and I have complete freedom in France. It's so amazing. If American directors could imagine how free I am, they would have asked for political asylum immediately.” IfsWantPlayPoliticalCoursesLanguageMy OwnAudienceImagineHugeDirectorsLimitsFranceParisAsylumsAmerican MovieComplete FreedomFrench LanguageFrench Movies Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet
“I don't just want to be associated with a few good 3D movies and the audience is saying all of the other ones are crap.” WantAudienceCrap Author:James Cameron